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As Hurricane Erin hits, FEMA is still withholding over $100 million in funds it owes to North Carolina for hurricane relief and preparedness following last year's devastating Hurricane Helene.

Mass Mobilization to Expose Links Between Climate Change, Economic Inequality and Rising Authoritarianism Driven by the Billionaire Class ...

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Today, the Texas House of Representatives is expected to approve a congressional redistricting map demanded by President Trump, putting the measure on a fast track to approval in the state Senate as ...

In a victory for religious freedom and church-state separation, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction today in Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, prohibiting ...

"The widespread destruction in Zeitoun," said one group, "is part of a deliberate Israeli policy: completing a campaign of genocide and erasing Palestinian urban life." ...

In a letter sent today to the director of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Public Citizen called for the immediate release of the AHRQ’S 2024 National Healthcare Quality ...

Late last week, a leaked draft of the second report from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission was released. Center for Food Safety (CFS) is extremely disappointed with the draft, which ...

What was expected to be the final session of negotiations on the new UN Plastics Treaty has closed in Geneva, Switzerland with negotiations being extended again. In the final days of negotiations, the ...

Any serious journalist would tell you that it’d be journalistic malpractice for a local journalist not to report that a prominent public official listed a boarded-up house as his official residence in ...

New report confirms GOP budget law triggers massive Medicare cuts. CBO analysis predicts $536 billion in cuts by 2034.